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Jason Calacanis posted a message on Twitter

“Seems fairly logical that if you take massive risk by selling high-risk mortgages you should expect that collapse is a possible outcome, no?”

September 15 at 10:16 am - Link

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sure, but when gambling with someone else's money, you can just keep taking the bonus - Dave Hodson

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If everyone understand risk of high-risk mortgages, then why still people invest in it? Why they dont move to safer markets? - Veetrag

The catch is that the salesman gets paid on the day the deal closes. (This happens at each level, from the originator through the securitizer.) If we started predicating compensation on actual 5 year value, this would right itself immediately. - Christopher Sacca

It's all about irrational exuberance. Oh yeah, and hubris. - Clay Newton

So let me get this straight you think giving a $450k home on a 5 year interest only loan to a guy that makes $8.50/hour is a bad idea? I see no problem with this. - Blackopsmanners

@Sacca Totally in agreement with you and what a difference it would make if the rules were changed. Problem is, the people making massive amounts off of these immoral pratices don't want to change it. One of the downsides of our highly capitalistic values. Money talks. - Steve Sebestyen via twhirl

surely it was intentionally made more complex than that - mortgages "packaged" en masse to spread risk, and then sold to other institutions. Also each firm likely figured there was another "greater fool" to buy these questionable mortgages and a fed bailout if the worst happened. Then add in the "easy" profit from interest on all those morgtages while they held up and one can see how they were rather alluring to Wall St... - Jason Kaneshiro

You should really listen to the This American Life special on the "Global Pool of Money." It spells out the problem better and more completely than anything else I've heard. This mess has many, many fathers. - Kevin Pedraja

A little humor and truth regarding this thread, it's a powerpoint presentation I received a while back, virus free (I swear but scan it anyhow): https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/11... - Steve Sebestyen via twhirl

The real problem was 3rd parties were happy to buy the contract off you (even GSEs). The stock market expected every bank to grow at an unsustainable rate so why not give a high-risk loan, package it up and sell it on and get your bonus? - Cains

MG Siegler posted a link

Great Moments In Journalism: Google News informs us that the Russians are invading the South

August 8 at 3:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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""i herd on the news that rusia has invaded but i dont see them no where wats going on."" - MG Siegler via Bookmarklet

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Yeah this is sadly humorous - Jason Kaneshiro

I was waiting for something like this - Can you imagine the panic if that kind of headline had appeared in the 50s? - Frederic

News Fail - Morgan

that is unfortunate, but it think Red Dawn foretold this happening. Better call the wolverines. - Blackopsmanners

I regularly encounter issues because of my alias "Ontario Emperor" (which is named for the California city, not the Canadian province). But I've never been the target of an invasion. P.S. Is there really a city in the nation of Georgia with the name "Java"? As if the country didn't have enough confusion already... - Ontario Emperor

Woah. - Corie "Viper" Jones

lol - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

I've never found a proper source but have heard some urban legends (or would be it be rural legends?) that local farmers flooded downtown Warsaw, North Carolina in 1939 after radio reports and word spread about the German invasion. - qthrul

That's what I immediately thought! I thought that the Russians were killing our Georgia! - Nate Pilling via twhirl

OMG. And they said WE were the Northern Aggressors. - Cyndy

@Cyndy, no that's just ya'll Yankees - Jason Carreira

Ryan Carson posted a message on Twitter

“If anyone says 'FAIL' one more time I'm going to go nuts. It's an easy way to slander people/companies/services without offering a solution.”

July 28 at 9:23 am - Link

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Yes. FAIL and EPIC FAIL drive me nuts..... but so does "FTW!" :) - Dion Almaer

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Fail FAIL! - Robert Cooper via twhirl

epic, ftw, noob, chuck norris, ZOMG, uber, pwnd, leet, and most other "cool" internet/mmorpg terms that need to die - Blackopsmanners

I just did. (I'm hoping I didn't cause this !) - however, is it okay if you *are* offering a solution ? - Mark Ng via twhirl

I prefer FAIL over "is dead". - Bwana

Leo Laporte bookmarked a page on delicious

Second Mac Clone Maker Set To Sell, With a Twist

July 27 at 2:54 pm - Link

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To be completely honest, Mac OS X isn't the only reason why I love my Mac. The design of the actual computers are sexy. There's no way I'd buy one of those janky looking clones. - Matt Horton

I hope this will help drive down the prices of apples. I love them, but I think they are a bit overpriced. - Blackopsmanners

Want to buy a Mac. Won't do it till the prices come down. Maybe this will help. - Jim Bednarz

Leo Laporte bookmarked a page on delicious

First Tesla Crash

July 27 at 2:53 pm - Link

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What’s believed to be the world’s first Tesla Roadster crash took place in San Francisco this evening at the corner of Geary and Gough streets at about 6 p.m. PDT. - Leo Laporte

I think he may have been going a smidge too fast. With any luck he rear-ended Al Gore or Ed Beagle Jr. they won't mind. - Blackopsmanners

Was Jason Calacanis hurt? - Wilma Stoneflint

who was at fault? it looks like the tesla was rear ended by the Nissan and then pushed into (and under) the Benz. - George Aranjuez via twhirl

Christopher Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“Dear Vendor: Saying I turned down your absurd offer because I "can't afford it" and I'm "ignorant" almost makes me reconsider...umm...never”

July 25 at 1:40 pm - Link

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Who was the vendor? - Kevin Fox

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Believe it or not, a design firm. I am launching something new and have been talking with folks about logo/identity work. They offered me a discount rate of tens of thousands of dollars and made sure to spell my name wrong in the quote. When I politely thanked them for their offer but let them know I was going with someone else, they wrote this excoriating reply. Until that point, I was still considering referring a large portfolio company to them for a big project. - Christopher Sacca

++ for using the word "excoriating" - Friend Feed's Tad

Google doesn't know what excoriating means: http://www.google.com/search?q... - Cyrus Lendvay

I'm not sure either, but it sounds awesome! - Friend Feed's Tad

Google doesn't know what excoriating means. I know what it means. Hence, I am greater than Google. Q.E.D :D - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

call them out please so I don't make the same mistake :P - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

you are kidding me - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Would you be ok with naming the firm? - Kamath ॐ

I think it invites bad karma to call them out by name at this point. If they materially f'd something up for me, I would feel better. But, being complete dicks at the quote phase isn't worth it. One of the likers above saw the thread though. :) (That said, if you are actively evaluating design firms in SF, just email me csacca@gmail.com) - Christopher Sacca

Let's just refer to them as excoriating.com - Ontario Emperor

It's really a very small world. I've never quite understood why folks burn bridges like this. - AJ Kohn

@AJ I was laid off from a law firm in 2001 and became general counsel of one of their biggest clients within a year. This is a really small valley, and because the firm handled letting us go with so much class, I was happy to do business with them. - Christopher Sacca

Wow, why and the world would you ever treat customers this way. I gotta speech when I worked a k-mart the customer is always right - Blackopsmanners

@Sacca: Exactly! Handle yourself professionally and be gracious because you simply never know what the future holds. It's a small merry-go-round here in SF and word spreads fast. You can recover from a failed venture but not if you're treating people poorly. In fact, you may fail (long-term) in a successful venture if you treat people poorly in the short term. - AJ Kohn

@Blackopsmanners: I'm not sure the customer is always right, but you never give the customer the proverbial finger. Sometimes you simply have to tell the customer that there isn't a match. Not a big deal really. Look at football, a QB may flourish in one system, but be a bust in another. Instead of trash talking, find greener pastures and, who knows, maybe the old team switches to the right system and they suddenly want you again. - AJ Kohn

Potential customer: "We're going with another company, but thanks" Cyrus: "I understand. Things have a habit of changing. Would you have any objection to me checking with you in 6 months?" I've often gotten customers who started off going with another company, but ended up not satisfied. Also, Silicon Valley is a very small place. Be a jerk and word will spread. - Cyrus Lendvay

this is probably a personal reaction from a vendor who has a fused personality - ie relies on the approval of others for their happiness - rejecting there products is a personal insult. - ben rogers via twhirl

Andrew Badera liked a story on Reddit

Desperate, people are using aluminum foil to save money on gas

July 25 at 3:03 pm - Link

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wow that took alot of work to figure out I wish these people just worked for a living. I think they could cure cancer with as much brain power as they commit to evil - Blackopsmanners

You could say that about a lot of criminals in general. - Andrew Badera

Hutch Carpenter loved a song on Last.fm

Public Enemy – 911 is a Joke

July 23 at 10:02 pm - Link

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get up get get down 911 is a joke in your town. that is old school - Blackopsmanners

Justin Korn posted an entry on Justin Korn's Blog

FriendFeed Followers - Lurking or Particpating?

July 23 at 6:24 pm - Link

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Participating. Let's see if the rest of your followers are. - Louis Gray

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I encourage anybody who has their FriendFeed follower stats memorized to read this, and wonder how your community is engaging. - Louis Gray

For me, there's at least 50 people following me who don't do anything on Friendfeed; presumably they signed up, checked it out, and left. In terms of "interesting stuff:" there's been a lot of talk about it, but I don't know what that means or what people are implying by it. Is it based on some objective measure of interestingness? Is it based on popularity? Interesting to whom? Is saying "I ate a mango" interesting? Did it become interesting when 3 dozen people liked or commented on it? Does it matter? - Mark Trapp

Participation is important, but I think it's more of an art rather than a science to getting your audience engaged. Some things you'll try that you think are really interesting nobody else will notice: other things that you share offhand will really take off. I guess I'm missing the project in this post (and your comment, Louis): are we supposed to be looking for ways to get more likes and comments on our stuff? Are you imploring your followers to be more engaged with their subscriptions? - Mark Trapp

I neeeeeeeeever participate - Mona N.

I'm still around, Mark. I do a lot of reading, Not as much commenting. - BISQ

Oh BISQ, there are people way less active than you :) Some people subscribed to me have 0 comments, 4 all time (or less), with no updates since June. - Mark Trapp

I don't comment on much and neither do most of my followers. It looks like lurkers stick together? - Dominik Hofmann

I am not a lurker but everyone but most of the people seems to be since my posts hardly get answered - Cecil Sandus

Present. Good article. - Hao Chen

Justin ... while you were Particpating .. I really lurked this - Charlie Anzman

was actually thinking about this the other day. i feel I participate quite a bit but I rarely see my posts, whether they are Tweets, blog posts or straight FF comments get remarks. Fortunately I find participating rewarding and I don't view people participating on my threads as a major element of the "score card" - Lou Paglia

I do think the participation level is in direct relation to the quality of the post; so... great post; here I am! - Jorge Escobar

eh? - Andrew Feinberg

Hoow does one define a lurker on FF ? (a) person never likes/comments on FF (b) person who never comments on your post (c) a person who never posts. Participation is important, but also remember a wise man holds his tongue !! :)- - Peter Dawson

Justin, I just tried to submit this to Digg, and it keeps throwing up URL error, for some reason it doesn't like your URL structure - Duncan Riley

I can tell you that our data on socialmedian shows that about 10% of our users are driving the site for the other 90%. When I was at AOL years back we counted on 1%. Which is still probably the right metric with scale for these sites. That's probably similar to what Digg is at. Of course, if a FF or a socialmedian can get to scale with 5% of the users, that would be a big big homerun - Jason Goldberg

Justin, I think you should make the RSS image on your site a link to your feed as well as the Subscribe text. Very interesting post, BTW :) - ♫ Rahsheen™

Mark Trapp: Personally, I was just trying to see the engagement level of my followers within a 24 hour period. As I mentioned in the post, everyone gets what they want out of FriendFeed and I am not trying to dictate that commenting and liking indicates your "activity." You can be a "passive aggressive" user by referring to FF everyday but not commenting or liking. However, I believe the point of a social network is be active by posting, commenting and being, well, social. - Justin Korn

But Justin, are you blogging for yourself? Or for participation and comment counts? - Mona N.

Also, I want to make it clear that I am not imploring anything. I simply just did a quick analysis of how people are engaging with my threads/post. It is always nice to get feedback, but it is understood that not everything will get feedback. - Justin Korn

Lou: I find participating rewarding as well and try to comment/like anything I feel interested me or at least engaged me. - Justin Korn

Mona, no he's bloggin only for you :)- .. but thats a good question !! Do what you love. It works for the Pope and Steve Jobs !! :)- - Peter Dawson

Peter... my name's mona =( - Mona N.

Why is every link, internal and external, rel=nofollow on your blog? - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl

Mona: I am blogging for myself. However, I participate in social networks to be "social" - Justin Korn

Justin, understandable: I'm trying to understand this. What can that information be used for? So 1/3 of your subscribers interact with you over a 24 hour period of time. Are you suggesting that more people ought to be more involved in participating? Or are you suggesting that you personally ought to do something to increase that level of participation? It's one thing to measure something: but what's the call to action? What value is it to know how engaged your followers are? I guess my question is for everyone: what do we gain by trying to figure out what our followers are doing in a social network? - Mark Trapp

Jake: No idea. I just started this thing...still tweaking the bugs. What should the links say? - Justin Korn

Duncan: I'll try to fix it...could it be due to feedburner? - Justin Korn

Dah ? what are your sayin Mona ?? - did I do something wrong..hehehhe :)- - Peter Dawson

@Justin Korn: I have a Firefox extension that hilights nofollows. After looking into it, it appears you have "<meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' />" in your <head>. This means that all links are invisible to search engines... even your internal links. I recommend removing this. The only thing you may want to nofollow is blog author URLs, but Wordpress should take care of that anyway. Note: Twhirl messes up this post badly! View it in FriendFeed! - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl

Why sit around in a room as noisy as FF if you're not going to participate? Heck, most days, the conversations here are far more interesting than anything I could have blogged about off in vacuum by myself, anyway. - Derrick Burns

lurk lurk lurk... pay no attention, I am not really here. - Louie

And I just joined yesterday, and am still trying to get the lay of the land. So there, now I've commented and I'm not a lurker. But it will take some time for people like me to acculturate enough to participate, and we have lots of competition for attention. At least I'm reading FF several times a day. - Dimitrios Diamantaras

Participating! - Andrew Fielding via twhirl

Mark: Yes, I think people should in some way or another indicate they are participating, that's what a social network is for. Yes, I think I need to produce more engaging "stuff" to get my followers more engaged. I haven't exactly come to a conclusion on what the numbers mean yet. That is for the reader to determine at this point. After a few more of these analysis, I am hoping to have a better idea. It is hard to get a clear vision of what is going on over a single 24 hour period. - Justin Korn

Dimitrios: Welcome and take your time. Once you get a hang of it, you'll love it! - Justin Korn

Jake: I'll take a look. Perhaps I have one of the settings set incorrectly. - Justin Korn

Breakfast is for WINNERS! - Thomas Hawk

Jake: I think I found it. Should be good now. Duncan: can you let me know if the fix I just made helped with the Digg issue as well? - Justin Korn

Thomas: Totally agree :) Speaking of which, I gotta eat dinner! - Justin Korn

I have been absent from FF lately due to vacation, but I missed it does that count? - Blackopsmanners

Only 20 of 68 of my followers are active. The rest are somehow just lurking. And the main point there is that those 20 are the most active at FF as a whole. Hao, Mona, Louis, Bret, Mark, Duncan, Allen, Steve C, Steve R, Chris, MG... - AJ Batac

@Justin Korn: Looks good! - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl

-schweet lurk thread - videopixil via twhirl

Participating.Good stuff - Igor Poltavskiy

"everyone gets what they want out of it." good point. old media tells us how to interact, social media doesn't. and in the free market place of ideas, or even a good dinner party, some are better conversationalists than others. non-virtually, a conversation is dead if based on charity. is it interesting if folks comment to be nice? lurkers might be eyeballs, which = value, even if you aren't in it for money. comments mean you've pushed buttons, no comments mean many things which you can only guess. - Katie Ratcliffe

clearly I am boring too my followers most do not comment. - Ruth Ferguson

LOL - bit of both. ♥ to participate WAY more... simply not enuf hours in the day. Focused on Facebook & Twitter (um, when it's working!!) Still, @GuyKawasaki did include me on his Top 100 peeps to follow on FriendFeed, along with @Scobleizer so I must be doing *something* right. haha. http://frienderati.alltop.com - Mari Smith

I tend to lurk for the most part and toss 2 cents when I feel I have something to add. I don't follow as closely as I used to, so others beat me to the punch and say pretty close to what I would have said more often than not these days (make sense?) - Jason Lister

much more fun in participating (though I'm italian and it's not so easy to read and write in english) - marcantonio

participating... as usual! ha! - Susan Beebe

Katie: Good points, thanks for sharing. IMO, I think every comment/like is fun to get. It shows people have read, appreciated what was said. With a blog, you have analytics running in the background telling you people are visiting and gives you the feedback you need to see if you are reaching out to people. On FF and other social networks, the only way to know you are reaching people is if they comment or like (in FriendFeed's case). - Justin Korn

Marcantonio - if you left a comment in Italian, I would find a way to translate it (as long as you noted it was Italian). - Justin Korn

no, no, I'll try to write in english, it's a good kind of brain training (I hope to make a few mistakes) - marcantonio

I really enjoy participating in Friendfeed. I read tons a day but rarely get the chance to talk about it/offer my own spin. I simply don't have the time for a blog (and if I did, I'd be doing it on peer reviewed cognitive/social/neuropsychological research) so throwing in a quick $.02 is really satisfying. Besides, most of you here are really interesting and add relevant information to the content that's being shared (as opposed to Digg). - Derick Valadao

Justin Korn posted a message

“Share: What are your favorite Photography based blogs out there? (Author - Link)”

July 22 at 4:15 pm - Link

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Thomas Hawk - http://www.thomashawk.com - Justin Korn

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Matt Kloskowski - http://www.lightroomkillertips... - Justin Korn

The Big Picture http://www.boston.com/bigpictu... - Alan Le

Stuck in Customs http://stuckincustoms.com/ - Alan Le

David Hobby - http://www.strobist.blogspot.c... (a bit obvious I guess) - Janek Mann

Janek: I'm looking for the obvious and not so obvious. Also blogs that overlap with other topics are okay as well... - Justin Korn

Darren Rowse - http://digital-photography-sch... - Justin Korn

David Ziser - http://digitalprotalk.blogspot... - Justin Korn

Michael Calanan - http://calanan.com/ - Jason Carreira

Ross Williams - http://flickr.com/photos/rgw_n... - Jason Carreira

Heading East: http://www.mexicanpictures.com... - edythe

Shorpy: http://www.shorpy.com/ - edythe

[daily dose of imagery] http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/ - edythe

Hungry Hedonist: http://hungryhedonist.blogspot... - clarke thomas

The Click http://theclick.us/ - Thomas Hawk

Digital Photography School http://digital-photography-sch... - Thomas Hawk

Ryan Brenizer http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/... - Thomas Hawk

Rob Haggart http://aphotoeditor.com/ - Thomas Hawk

I just flickr search... does that count? - Mona N.

Chris Nixon http://photografr.com/ - Thomas Hawk

Trevor Carpenter http://www.photowalking.org/ - Thomas Hawk

Carlos Miller http://carlosmiller.com/ - Thomas Hawk

Maybe it's just me but I have trouble finding photography blogs that stick for me, with very few exceptions. I get bored with photo blogs (i.e. mostly photos, little commentary), photo technique blogs, photo equipment blogs, photography-as-art blogs, and I just don't care about photo industry blogs, etc. And for the record, yes, I know my own blog falls into one of those categories. :) The best ones for me, like Thomas Hawk's blog, cover photography from many diverse angles. - Michael Hocter

I love looking a good photo blogs and flickr. I wish I had a good DSLR I use to dabble in film photog. I was in right when the digital was taking over. I found that a good camera and some quick reading and you will take good pics. To take great pics you have to have the eye. - Blackopsmanners

TWIP http://twipphoto.com/ - Thomas Hawk

http://www.twipphoto.com. Scott Bourne, Alex Lindsay, et. al. The associated podcast is probably the main resource for me, but the blog also has good content. - Bill Crow

Can't believe no-one mentioned strobist - http://www.strobist.blogspot.c... - Jason Carreira

Chromasia http://www.chromasia.com/ - Akiva Moskovitz

good call on strobist - Damien Franco

jason carreira: :) someone did pretty early. - edythe

mandolux: http://www.mandolux.com desktop wallpapers, really, but great photos nonetheless - Trent Olson

A favorite pure photo blog... HELLO: http://www.mylalaland.com/hell... - Michael Hocter

Stephen Faust http://stephenfaust.wordpress.... - Bryan Clark

Daily Walks (Diane Varner): http://www.dianevarner.com/ - Michael Hocter

Frank Petronio: http://frankpetronio.com - Michael Hocter

Flak Photo: http://flak-photo.my-expressio... - Michael Hocter

Home of the Vain (sometimes NSFW): http://www.homeofthevain.com - Michael Hocter

Joe Reifer (Night Photography): http://www.joereifer.com/words... - Michael Hocter

This Week In Photography - http://www.twipphoto.com - Liana Lehua

Ride My Pony (NSFW): http://ridemypony.com - Michael Hocter

The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.t... - Michael Hocter

Shoot! The Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/ - Michael Hocter

T.S.H Photo Cafe http://tchpcafe.exblog.jp/ - Edward via twhirl

This Week In Photography - http://www.twipphoto.com - Tom

Chase Jarvis - http://blog.chasejarvis.com/bl... - Kortney Jarman

Joe McNally - http://www.joemcnally.com/blog - Kortney Jarman

Scott Kelby - http://www.scottkelby.com/blog - Kortney Jarman

Thomas Hawk - Amazing work! His favs are also wonderful. - Dave Martin

Thanks all! Didn't know about many of these. Now only of I had the time to check them all out. - Joe Perrin

Cornershots - http://www.cornershots.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

Absolutely Nothing - http://www.absolutely-nothing.... - Kol Tregaskes

m o o d a h o i c - http://www.moodaholic.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

milou - http://www.milouvision.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

Julien Roumagnac - http://www.j-roumagnac.net - Kol Tregaskes

Outstanding Shots - http://outstandingshots.blogsp... - Kol Tregaskes

p a b s t p h o t o . c o m - http://www.pabst-photo.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

Thinking-Picture - http://www.thinking-picture.co... - Kol Tregaskes

flickstr - http://flickstr.basementserver... (perhaps not a blog but you can find some interesting photography here - Kol Tregaskes

Neil Creek - http://neil.creek.name/blog/ - Kol Tregaskes

PhotoResearcher - http://www.researchphotos.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

Ask the Photographer - http://askthephotographer.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

The Business of Photography - http://photobusinesseducation.... - Kol Tregaskes

Epic Edits (Brian Auer) - http://blog.epicedits.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

Jim M. Goldstein - http://www.jmg-galleries.com/b... - Kol Tregaskes

Photo Business News & Forum - http://photobusinessforum.blog... - Kol Tregaskes

Photo HowTo - http://www.photohowto.info/ - Kol Tregaskes

Photodoto - http://photodoto.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

photonovice.net - http://www.photonovice.net/ - Kol Tregaskes

Photopreneur - http://blogs.photopreneur.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

thephotographybiz - http://www.thephotographybiz.c... - Kol Tregaskes

TalkRocket - http://www.talkrocket.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

Beyond Phototips - http://www.beyondphototips.com... - Kol Tregaskes

Tips from the top - http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor... - Kol Tregaskes

DIYPhotography.net - http://www.diyphotography.net/ - Kol Tregaskes

HyperPhocal - http://hyperphocal.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

Microstock Diaries - http://www.microstockdiaries.c... - Kol Tregaskes

Photo Attorney - http://www.photoattorney.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

Planet Photoshop - http://www.planetphotoshop.com... - Kol Tregaskes

Shutterbug Source Photography Tips - http://www.shutterbugsource.co... - Kol Tregaskes

PSDTuts - http://psdtuts.com - Kol Tregaskes

Hope that's enough to keep you busy ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is an amazing list. - Russellreno

TWIP http://twipphoto.com/ - Bob

David J. Nightingale - http://www.chromasia.com/iblog... - Kol Tregaskes

Your Photo Tips - http://www.yourphototips.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

Photo Merchant - http://photomerchant.net/ - Kol Tregaskes

John Nack on Adobe (His job title is Principal Product Manager, Adobe Photoshop) - http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/ - Daniel Schildt

101 Cookbooks - Recipe Journal (great if you like food and photos of it) -- http://www.101cookbooks.com - Daniel Schildt

m o o d a h o l i c (Kenny Weng) - http://www.moodaholic.com - Daniel Schildt

Black Star Rising - http://rising.blackstar.com - Daniel Schildt

Lumilux (Hans E. Hyttinen) - http://lumilux.org - Daniel Schildt

Flickr Art of Color Photography - http://flickrart.blogspot.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

Kol - WOW, I think you are going to keep me busy for the rest of the year! - Justin Korn

Thank you everyone! I'm sorting through these now and will hopefully have a post about them all sometime this week. - Justin Korn

Shutterpad.com - http://www.shutterpad.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

@Justin Korn (justinkorn): I've just been through my flickr contacts this week to add them as imaginary friends so why doing this I added them here, I also posted my fav list on my blog, so has killed several birds with one stone. ;-) Warning: I'll keep posting, on and on and on... ;-) - Kol Tregaskes via NoiseRiver

Photoaxe.com - http://www.photoaxe.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

Digital Photography Blogs - http://digitalphotographyblogs... - Kol Tregaskes

So I didn't get a post up as soon as I expected, but here is the first of hopefully a few to come...http://blog.justinkorn.com/ind... - Justin Korn

Jerry Stevens Jr. http://www.Awesomephotograph.c... - Lori

Mark Trapp posted a link

Dark Roasted Blend: Fog Storm Over Badlands

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From Dark Roasted Blend: "As though the weird quality of the fantastic landscape of South Dakota Badlands was not enough, huge rolling clouds (or rather very dense fog) descended to advance majestically over surreal rock formations... The fog front left in the wake of a severe Rapid City storm, rising above in an impossible crested wave:" - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

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wow, very cool - Andrew Smith

That is amazing. - BISQ

These are great too, from a link on the DRB page: http://www.extremeinstability.... - Alejandro S.

gorgeous! - Rob Kramer

wild photos. - Cee Bee

Like cotton ontop of dirt. - Franklin Naval

Wow those are great pics - Blackopsmanners

Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

The most hated man in America? (the cable guy)

July 8 at 12:22 am - Link

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I'm not sure about the rest of the country, but here in Silicon Valley the options for broadband are at best mediocre. It blows me away that we do not have access the state of the art broadband services, even though all of the hardware that runs those services is designed right here in the valley. - Jeff P. Henderson

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Jeff: I agree with you. I can't even get good HDTV here in Half Moon Bay and I'm 10 miles from the valley. What was really funny is that Douglas Engelbart doesn't even have reliable cell phone or Internet at his house in one of the richest neighborhoods in the valley and he helped invent all this stuff! Maybe I gotta move to Korea... - Robert Scoble

I'll take beach view and ocean over "better cable" any day - johnpiercy

I don't have a beach view. Gotta walk to the beach. That said, I pinch myself every day that I get to live where I do. - Robert Scoble

Least you guys don't have charter, horrible cable reception, pitiful broadband speed (+ outages + throttling) and they're the only game in town >< - Ed Cline

Jeff and Robert. So true. Personally, I blame Comcast. - Eric Eldon

Not just Comcast, you can blame AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and probably a few others as well as our Federal government for lagging horribly in appropriate legislation to fix the problem. - Jeff P. Henderson

I tried not to hate out cable company then they came to remove a service box from my house, and ripped a 4 inch wide circle out of my stucco. I wish I had a choice in cable companies. - Blackopsmanners

I live on the east coast near Washington, DC in the cheapest apartments in my town... But I've got FIOS :) - David Silvernail

You'd think that access and speeds in the cradle of America's tech industry would be top of the line. In the rest of the country, in the non-tech world, people I talk to are usually satisfied with their two options (ATT dsl or Charter cable). Most Americans aren't really familiar with the level of speed and access available in other countries. They think they're getting the best that's out there and it won't improve until the consumer demands it. Our goal should be to educate the average consumer. - steplow = Steve Lowe

Take note of how Kyle wants to control the distribution of content. He definitely sees independent content sites as competition. Wish you could have dug deeper into this issue Robert and asked the tough questions... - Jim McCusker

Engineers will solve the congestion issue? Not likely. The 5 percenters sucking up bandwidth will end up paying more. It's simple math when you consider the true costs associated with the true costs ISP's pay for bandwidth, peering and equipment. I'd be interested in seeing someone do those comparisons. - Jim McCusker

You think it's bad in the US. Try Canada, no competition, high prices, throttling ... and Rogers. They have a virtual monopoly in both cable and 3G wireless ... They are the only wireless provider to have the iPhone and are charging through the nose for access. - Robert Couture

@jim mccusker, good point on seeing the control of content gleam in that guy's eyes - Gregory Lent

What was up with the gold (color, material?) oil rig looking statue on the table in front of you guys. Did you ask him what it was? - Dr. Apps via twhirl

Rubin Sfadj posted a link

Exclusive: Sneak Peek of the 3G iPhone OS | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

July 8 at 3:48 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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I'm liking the location tagging on photos. Hopefully it can be tied in with other apps and sites like Brightkite too, would save time. - Simon Wicks

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searching contacts would be enough for me to switch! - Randal Leeb-du Toit

@Simon Yeah, it would be a major FAIL if geotagging isn't Flickr compatible. - Martin Bryant

Interesting. But I'm still bitter there is no stereo Bluetooth out. All the bells and whistles are fine, I appreciate gadgets, but I realize now that MP3/podcast out is more important day-to-day for me than all the rest... If only the Samsung Omnia was closer to being released. - David Sky

@Martin totally agree - Rubin Sfadj

l0ckergn0me posted a link

How Not to use PowerPoint

July 7 at 7:42 pm - Link

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The Community College I work at is Famous for these type of Powerpoints! ROFL! - Chris Rodgers

Christopher Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“I am the very proud new owner of a late model burrito from Victor's. I unfortunately expect to depreciate its value imminently.”

July 7 at 6:45 pm - Link

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I heard that Twitter bought it. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

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@Ontario - nice... - acedanger

@Ontario - comment of the day. - Christopher Sacca

congratz did you get the extended warranty? - Blackopsmanners

Don't you have up to 36 months to buy the extended warranty? I'd wait until then. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

Zoidberg: "Once again the conservative sandwich-heavy portfolio pays of for the hungry investor!" http://tinyurl.com/rjudv - Joe Beda